House spending bill would lead to $1B in D.C. cuts. Here’s what that means.

The House stopgap funding bill passed Tuesday night would force D.C. officials to rapidly cut $1.1 billion in local government spending over the next six months by effectively canceling the District’s active 2025 budget and forcing the city to return to its fiscal 2024 spending levels. It passed the House narrowly and almost exclusively along party lines, with all but one Democrat voting against it and all but one Republican voting for it. House Democrats, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and members of the D.C. Council had tried over the past several days to explain how the bill would...